Movies

Lincoln and Les Miserables are both impressive movies. Visually arresting, dazzlingly produced, even reasonably entertaining. Oscar fodder and all that. But in the end, both feel a little empty. Like eye candy. No nutritional value. Not especially memorable. Lacking in soul and story, and ultimately sort of disappointing.... »Read more »

The Dark Knight Rises (A-): Saw this twice. Enjoyed it more the second time, oddly. Guess I got all of my nitpicks out of the way on the first viewing. I do have some nits to pick, but I do love the Batman. Can't help it.

The Avengers (B+): Hey, this is the Marvel-verse movie I've been waiting for. Funny, action-packed, entertaining. Yeehaw. ... »Read more »

Amorak: The Hunger Games. Go.

Mark: Great book. Good movie. Probably as good as it could have been, given that so much of the book is in Katniss’ head/thoughts. I wonder what the experience of seeing the movie would have been like if I hadn’t read the book?... »Read more »

The lovely Mrs. Amorak (she likes it when I call her that) has spent the past couple of weekends out of town at conferences, and I've taken advantage of that fact to stay up too late and watch movies that I don't think she'd be especially interested in. Cue the crummy dialogue and stylized violence!... »Read more »

Spring break is known 'round these parts as "see as many movies as you can while the kids are in school week." This year, we got to the theater twice and saw four movies on DVD. Not bad. I will say, though, that this was not the most rollicking happy fun time group of movies ever. We didn't set out to make it this way, but it turned out to be a fairly earnest, self-serious group of films.... »Read more »